Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.